Archive for February 2007
some people consider chiron a key to uranus, and pholus a key to neptune. so is nessus a key to pluto? i found this on zane's website:
Nessus, according to the myth, offered to ferry Heracles' wife across a river.....and when he reached the other side, tried to rape her. Heracles, quite naturally enraged, shot Nessus with a poison arrow. As Nessus lay dying, he told Heracles' wife that, should Heracles ever be unfaithful, she could bring him back to her by placing the blood-soaked cloak (now on Nessus' back) over Heracles' shoulders. (In some of the more graphic stories, though, it was a mixture of his blood and semen that Nessus told Deianera to scoop up....and to put on a cloak one day should Heracles stray in his affections.) Years later, she remembered Nessus' words, and did precisely that. But Nessus lied....on his death bed, he wanted revenge. The cloak caused Heracles to burn up with flames of magic, and he was in terrible pain. Hera finally relented, allowed his physical body to die on earth, and translated him to Mount Olympus where he was made one of the gods for all time. (Something to ponder....it was Nessus' poisonous act that, in actuality, healed the feud between Hera and Heracles.)
seems like alot of pluto/scorpio themes. inspiring transformation, vengeance, the flames that burned heracles only for him to become immortal... very reminiscent of the pheonix. has anyone heard of nessus refered to as a key to pluto?
thanks, btw, zane. your site's great. here's a link to the page (a good resource) if anyone else wants to look into nessus:
http://www.zanestein.com/nessus.htm
Nessus, according to the myth, offered to ferry Heracles' wife across a river.....and when he reached the other side, tried to rape her. Heracles, quite naturally enraged, shot Nessus with a poison arrow. As Nessus lay dying, he told Heracles' wife that, should Heracles ever be unfaithful, she could bring him back to her by placing the blood-soaked cloak (now on Nessus' back) over Heracles' shoulders. (In some of the more graphic stories, though, it was a mixture of his blood and semen that Nessus told Deianera to scoop up....and to put on a cloak one day should Heracles stray in his affections.) Years later, she remembered Nessus' words, and did precisely that. But Nessus lied....on his death bed, he wanted revenge. The cloak caused Heracles to burn up with flames of magic, and he was in terrible pain. Hera finally relented, allowed his physical body to die on earth, and translated him to Mount Olympus where he was made one of the gods for all time. (Something to ponder....it was Nessus' poisonous act that, in actuality, healed the feud between Hera and Heracles.)
seems like alot of pluto/scorpio themes. inspiring transformation, vengeance, the flames that burned heracles only for him to become immortal... very reminiscent of the pheonix. has anyone heard of nessus refered to as a key to pluto?
thanks, btw, zane. your site's great. here's a link to the page (a good resource) if anyone else wants to look into nessus:
http://www.zanestein.com/nessus.htm
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just a thought... but i wouldn't be surprised to see eris become the ruler (or sub-ruler) of libra/H7. if the first half of the zodiac (houses 1-6) are more personal houses, and houses 7-12 deal with more interpersonal ideas, it would make sense that the outer planets would be assigned to these houses. normally saturn is considered the planet that creates the border between inner (personal) and outer (interpersonal) planets. i would beg to differ. i think that jupiter is the beginning of the outer planets. it deals with philosophy, morals, ideals... ideas that go beyond the personal to take a person's effect on society as a whole into consideration. besides, the main asteroid belt in our solar system is found between mars and jupiter... maybe it's that asteroid belt that forms the border between inner and outer planets.
eris' strange orbit may explain the indecisiveness and "flakiness" associated with libras, and the morphing of relationships in general... i'd assume that we've all had someone who we considered a friend for years, then suddenly for some reason or another, that friendship ends. or someone who's a minor part of your life (maybe a friend of a friend or someone who hangs out in the same circle or same place) that suddenly becomes a close friend or lover. or a complete stranger who suddenly becomes a huge part of your life. so that's my theory. i accept that it's fairly unfounded at this point (as is anything dealing with eris), but it makes alot of sense to me.
a side note: that leaves mercury as the only planet repeated as a sign/house ruler. this is going pretty far, but the earth seems like a good possibility to rule virgo/H6... the work/slavery inherent with the earth, having to farm, work the land in order to eat... being at the mercy of the weather. maybe some way of combining geocentric and heliocentric astrology? just a side thought that i know could pass as pure lunacy/idiocy.
eris' strange orbit may explain the indecisiveness and "flakiness" associated with libras, and the morphing of relationships in general... i'd assume that we've all had someone who we considered a friend for years, then suddenly for some reason or another, that friendship ends. or someone who's a minor part of your life (maybe a friend of a friend or someone who hangs out in the same circle or same place) that suddenly becomes a close friend or lover. or a complete stranger who suddenly becomes a huge part of your life. so that's my theory. i accept that it's fairly unfounded at this point (as is anything dealing with eris), but it makes alot of sense to me.
a side note: that leaves mercury as the only planet repeated as a sign/house ruler. this is going pretty far, but the earth seems like a good possibility to rule virgo/H6... the work/slavery inherent with the earth, having to farm, work the land in order to eat... being at the mercy of the weather. maybe some way of combining geocentric and heliocentric astrology? just a side thought that i know could pass as pure lunacy/idiocy.
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